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...outer walls of the Arab-Libyan cultural center in Managua are snapshots of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi reviewing troops. When Colombian terrorists raided the Palace of Justice in Bogota last year and had to be blasted out by government troops, the guerrillas were portrayed in the state- controlled Managuan press as victims of a governmentinstigated massacre...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tough Tug of War | 3/31/1986 | See Source »

...revolution with impunity. Symmetry could come to imply that the Sandinistas may have to negotiate a political accommodation with the contras along the lines of the negotiated power sharing that some leftists in El Salvador are seeking. Some U.S. officials would like to see the eventual collapse of the Managuan government, which has become increasingly totalitarian in its domestic policies, and increasingly unpopular. Certainly that is what the Sandinistas believe is the main Administration motive. Said Ramirez: "If he could do it, Reagan would finish us off with a neutron bomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pros, Cons and Contras | 6/6/1983 | See Source »

...still morning in Managua, Nicaragua's capital. U. S. Marines in their tents at Campo de Marte mopped their brows and wondered idly at the exuberance with which the Managuan oxcart drivers were shouting, brandishing their goads, yelling insults at honking motorists this particular morning. (A native rumor of "Earthquake weather" had gone the rounds.) Downtown, women and children crowded through the plaster arches and narrow corridors of Managua's covered market to do their Holy Week shopping. At the old dirty-white adobe National Penitentiary Lieut.-Commander Hugo F. A. Baske, U. S. naval doctor, and Quartermaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: End of a Capital | 4/13/1931 | See Source »

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